Tag: justification

Yesterday I read a book review that issued a passing commentary on the author’s decision to read πίστις Χριστοῦ (pistis christou) as “Christ’ faithfulness” rather than “faith in Christ.” The review’s comment was, “Once we take faith out of Paul’s doctrine of justification by faith, one wonders what we have left.” To which my reply […]

In my snail’s pace through Douglas Campbell’s The Deliverance of God: An Apocalyptic Rereading of Justification in Paul, I’ve gotten through his assessment of the problems with a traditional reading of Romans 1:16-17 and 3:21-26 (pp. 377-81). Although this was a short section, it was a good reminder that (a) there are some serious problems […]

Well why not? Maybe I can make my blog a running commentary on Christianity Today… I’m now in possession of the April issue, which features a lovely picture of Jesus with a crown of thorns, and the promise of a Scot McKnight article on why the failure to find the “real” Jesus is a good […]

I’ve been slow on my reading of Douglas Campbell’s The Deliverance of God lately. Sorry to leave you all hanging. I’m currently going through the chapter where he critiques the traditional “justification theory” reading of Romans 1:18-3:20. In general, I find in reading through this section that my fears from the earlier chapters are playing […]

Douglas, I’m up to the part on hermeneutical considerations, where I was most keenly interested in what you were going to say about the Reformed Tradition. But before we get there… I thought you did a very good job laying out the building blocks of interpreting a text. In particular, there were three important pieces […]

I’ve just come through a couple of really interesting chapters in Douglas Campbell’s Deliverance of God, ch. 4 on Judaism and ch. 5 on the question of Paul’s conversion. Rather than give summaries or engaging the arguments Douglas cares about, I want to draw attention to one major point he makes in which he scores […]

[I continue my running thoughts on Douglas Campbell’s The Deliverance of God: An Apocalyptic Rereading of Justification in Paul. I’ve chosen to switch to second person address since DAC has been around and read the blog and interacted here, and because I know him. Plus, there’s no point pretending that we’re all objective and dispassionate […]

If you don’t know who Michael Gorman is, you better find out in a hurry. I use his Apostle of the Crucified Lord in my Acts- Revelation course because (a) students devour it; and (b) once they have, they speak of Paul differently, they read Paul differently, their understanding of the gospel is articulated in […]